Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature and the College, was awarded a 2012–13 research leave fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and was also an Affiliated Fellow of the Franke Institute for the Humanities. Additionally, he received a grant from the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society for Global Literary Networks, a collaborative digital humanities research project with Hoyt Long and Tom McEany, Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at Cornell University, that examines the worldwide production, diffusion, and reception of literature.